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City's Nativity scene a disgrace

The Lowell Sun

Updated:
12/13/2012 06:33:23 AM EST

Our family attended the City of Lights parade in downtown Lowell on Nov. 24.

The parade was great; our family wanted to see the Christmas stable by City Hall, kneel and say a prayer for all participating in the parade and for others; when we knelt in from of the creche, we were sickened to see such a disgraceful Christmas scene. Statues missing fingers, severely chipped lambs and other animals, and extremely worn major characters of the birth scene.

Is our beautiful city of Lowell that hard up financially that we as a city would think that entire display would be comforting to our citizens and the entire Christian community?

The "Birth Scene of Jesus" should be awe-inspiring, not shameful.

Having statues in such need of repair should be taken care of in September or October. Our city should be proud to bring others to this area to show our pride by having a Christmas scene that's beautiful.

We have written to the city manager about this. He has not called us back yet. We will volunteer our time to paint and repair, along with others, these figures and animals. We are not professional repairers and painters, but we have a love for the Christmas crib scene and would do our best to make it appealing to all who visit that area.

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